Yakov Sverdlov

Yakov Sverdlov (3 June 1885-16 March 1919) was Chairman of the Secretariat of the Bolsheviks from 1918 to 1919, preceding Elena Stasova.

Biography
Yakov Sverdlov was born on 3 June 1885 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire to a family of Russian Jews. In 1902, he joined the Bolsheviks and took part in the 1905 Revolution in Ural, being deported to Siberia from 1914 to 1916. In 1917, he returned to politics after the Russian Revolution, and he was the de jure chief of state of the Russian SFSR from 1918 to 1919 as Chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party. He died of typhus during the Spanish Influenza outbreak of the late 1910s on 16 March 1919.